Humidity Issue

[Mentat]

Hi Gary! Can you compare your humidity gauge with another unit? Is it digital or analog?

[dmallia]

as carlos said is you gauge analogue or digital? and could include a little bit information about the setup and maybe post some pictures? what kind of heating are you using?(bulb or heatpad) If it is a heatpad where it is positioned?

[maxQ]

Good Morning folks,
The gauge that I am currently using is a "PETCO" a analog gauge, I am going to go buy a digital Humidity Gauge this morning as soon as stores open here. Over night, with the top completely sealed other than one hole for the heat bulb, I am only able to achieve 40% Humidity (according to the gauge). The tank size is 4ft long x 13in wide x 20in high, my Temp Guage is Digital, I am using a large Heat Pad affixed to the side glass along with a 150w Infrared Heat Bulb with dimmer switch on top. I do have this tank partitioned off with nothing on the other side just until my Milk Frogs grow larger as recommended to me from the supplier.

[maxQ]

UPDATE: Ya know, I am a retired Aircraft Mechanic (30 Years), the first thing they taught me in school was check the simple things first and always, when in doubt , replace the gauges. Well with that being said, I swapped out my gauge this morning with another one after yall mentioned it and my humidity is perfect, apparently my gauge was bad...what a dope. Thanks for your help guys.

[maxQ]

The drama continues- I bought a EXO-Terra Combo Digital Therm/Hum Meter w/Probe, to test it I placed it in the tank with my already exsisting Digital Thermometer and an Analog Thermometer, so I have 3 Thermometers in one tank going on, (2 Dig and 1 Analog), they all read something different and the 2 digital ones have a10 degree difference in Tempurture, how do you know which one to believe?

[carsona246]

average them all together? That's a tough one

[dmallia]

are the probes placed differently in the vivarium or are all in the same place?